The Journal
Notes kept against the data.
Everything here is written from the network's own booking data: live rates, the properties' own listings, and our price research. No filler; if the data doesn't say it, we don't write it.
Entry № 3 · 2026-07-29 · 5 min
What loyalty is worth
We joined Booking.com's loyalty program at two levels and re-priced 418 hotel-stays with each account. The badges promise ten to twenty percent. Here is what membership actually changed.
Entry № 2 · 2026-07-29 · 6 min
The same room, priced twice
We matched 728 room types across 87 European hotels against Booking.com: same room, same nights, same taxes. The median gap was nineteen percent, and it was not in Booking's favour.
Entry № 1 · 2026-07-28 · 3 min
When Ibiza goes to sleep
We priced the same forty hotels for every week of autumn. The island gets cheaper, then quieter, then it closes almost entirely. Here is the week to catch it mid-yawn.